< Song of Songs 8 >
1 I would that thou, O my kinsman, wert he that sucked the breasts of my mother; when I found thee without, I would kiss thee; yea, they should not despise me.
萬望你的兄弟,吮過我母親的乳房,好叫我 外邊遇見你時,能親吻你,而不致受人輕視。
2 I would take thee, I would bring thee into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me; I would make thee to drink of spiced wine, of the juice of my pomegranates.
我要引領你走進我母親的家,進入懷我者的內室;給你喝調香的美酒,石榴的甘釀
3 His left hand [should be] under my head, and his right hand should embrace me.
他的左手在我頭下,他的右手緊抱著我。◆新郎:
4 I have charged you, ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the virtues of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake [my] love, until he please.
耶路撒冷女郎! 我懇求妳們,不要驚醒,也不要喚我的愛,讓她自便吧![第六幕:愛情的圓滿]◆耶京女郎:
5 Who is this that comes up all white, leaning on her kinsman? I raised thee up under an apple-tree; there thy mother brought thee forth; there she that bore thee brought thee forth.
從曠野裏上來,那依偎著自己的愛人的,是誰﹖◆新郎:在蘋果樹下我喚醒了妳,在那裏妳的母親懷孕了妳,在那裏生養妳的,為妳受了產痛。◆新娘:
6 Set me as a seal upon thy heart, as a seal upon thine arm; for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave, her shafts are shafts of fire, [even] the flames thereof. (Sheol )
請將我有如印璽,放在你的心上,有如印璽,放在你肩上,因為愛情猛如死亡,妒愛頑如陰府:它的火焰,是上主的火焰。◆新郎: (Sheol )
7 Much water will not be able to quench love, and rivers shall not drown it; if a man would give all his substance for love, [men] would utterly despise it.
洪流不能熄滅愛情,江河不能將它沖去,如有人獻出全副家產想購買愛情,必受人輕視。◆新娘兄弟:
8 Our sister is little, and has no breasts; what shall we do for our sister, in the day wherein she shall be spoken for?
我的妹妹尚小,還沒有乳房;到了她議婚之日,為我們的妹妹,我們將作什麼﹖
9 If she is a wall, let us build upon her silver bulwarks; and if she is a door, let us carve for her cedar panels.
她若是牆,我們就在上面建造銀堵,她若是門,我們就用香柏木閂來關鎖。◆新娘:
10 I am a wall, and my breasts are as towers; I was in their eyes as one that found peace.
我是一道牆,我的乳房如同塔。我在他眼裏,實如獲得和平的女郎。◆新娘兄弟:
11 Solomon had a vineyard in Beelamon; he let his vineyard to keepers; every one was to bring for its fruit a thousand [pieces] of silver.
撒羅滿在巴耳哈孟有個葡萄園,他將這葡萄園委托給看守的人;每人為園中的果子,應交一千兩銀子。◆新郎:
12 My vineyard, even mine, is before me; Solomon [shall have] a thousand, and they that keep its fruit two hundred.
那屬我的葡萄園,就在我面前;撒羅滿! 一千兩銀子歸你,二百兩歸看守果子的人。◆新郎:
13 Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken to thy voice: make me hear [it].
妳這住在果園中的女郎,願妳使我聽到妳的聲音! 同伴們都在等候細聽。◆新娘:
14 Away, my kinsman, and be like a doe or a fawn on the mountains of spices.
我的愛人! 願你仿效郁香山上的羚羊或幼鹿,趕快跑來!